Right, lets start this post off with a bit of venting. After recently graduating from high school, I acquired insurmountable assloads of cash due to the fact that I invited every family member I had never heard of to my party. Ninety percent of the people at my house that day were relatives from the farthest distances of familial BFE, each of which brought me an envelope stuffed with twenty dollars. I’d also like to mentioned that my mother’s uncle’s cousin’s nephew’s girlfriend’s best friend’s thirty-first cousin thrice removed who happened to marry some other person on my mother’s side of the family (I’m. Not. Joking.) taught me on that particular day that I’m not quite as good at Modern Warfare as I thought I was. He just skipped the middle-man and bought me baby powder as a present in order to soothe my bum from the asskicking he gave me.
But, I digress. I spent a whopping $1675 of that money (which was, er, a good 95% of it) on a new computer. And by ‘new,’ I mean this thing could probably take over a third world country. Now, I did this all through ibuypower, which is a website that allows you to put together a computer digitally and then have a professional put it together by hand so you don’t screw everything up. Great, fine, fantastic, right? I’m going to order this thing, get it in a few weeks, and play every gorgeous looking game under God’s green Earth with the sexiest goddamn frame rate you ever did see, right?
Fuck no. I ordered it the day after Thanksgiving and it’s still not here. The best part about all of it? After calling to figure out what was going on, they told me that the reason it’s not here is because they lost it. They misplaced my 1.6k investment.
Okay, I lied. That wasn’t even the best part of the story. I fought for overnight shipping after they called back and told me they found it. They insisted on expedited. Fine. That was on Tuesday. My ‘expedited’ shipment will be here on Monday. I start classes again on Tuesday and Dragon Age: Origins, as well as a plethora of other lovely computer games sitting on my desk, have been taunting me since December 25th.
Sure, I know it’s petty. I know that I need to unbunch the panties and dig out the sand. I’m sure that I was one of the few that ibuypower has accidentally screwed over. I could also be one of the many starving people in (oh, lets be unoriginal) Ethiopia. But, when I spend $1675 on a product, I damn well better get some fabulous service for it. Now, however, I’m stuck here with nothing to sate my gaming fix but Fable 2.
However, I’ll get into more about that fickle little Fable installment tomorrow.
Or, wait. Maybe that should technically be ‘later today’.
